Louis von der Groeben

Louis von der Groeben (born August 27, 1842 in Arenstein ; † August 12, 1904 there ) was a German manor owner and member of parliament in East Prussia.

Life

origin

Louis was a son of the gentleman on Arenstein and Tiefensee Theodor von der Groeben (1805-1863) and his wife Valeska, born von Wrangel (1808-1884).

Career

Groeben attended the old town high school and the university in Königsberg . In 1862 he joined the Prussian Army and in 1863 became Second Lieutenant in the 8th Pomeranian Infantry Regiment No. 61 . He took part in the war against Austria in 1866 and in the war against France in 1870/71 . By 1875 he was promoted to captain and company commander in the Westphalian Fusilier Regiment No. 37 in Posen . In 1876 Groeben took his leave .

He was the owner of an estate in Arenstein and sat in the Prussian House of Representatives from 1879 to 1885 . For the German Conservative Party , he represented the Reichstag constituency of Königsberg 5 in the German Reichstag from 1893 to 1903 . In 1894 he was appointed to the Prussian manor house .

Groeben was a legal knight of the Order of St. John and he died shortly before his 62nd birthday.

family

He married Bertha Linde (* 1845) on September 20, 1867. The sons Kurt (* 1868) and Paul Theodor (* 1885) emerged from the marriage.

Web links

• Louis von der Groeben in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Louis von der Groeben . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. 1903. Fourth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1902, pp. 336–337.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 155 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 94-97.
2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 4.